finity

0.1.5

Test for Finiteness of Moments in a Distribution

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Overview

About

Maintained by Torsten HeinrichFirst published 2020-04-075 releasesCRAN page ↗

The purpose of this package is to tests whether a given moment of the distribution of a given sample is finite or not. For heavy-tailed distributions with tail exponent b, only moments of order smaller than b are finite. Tail exponent and heavy- tailedness are notoriously difficult to ascertain. But the finiteness of moments (including fractional moments) can be tested directly. This package does that following the test suggested by Trapani (2016) doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.08.006.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("finity", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-finity

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-finity

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-06-08
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-22
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcpp stabledist

LinkingTo (3)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo BH

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Torsten Heinrich

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Torsten Heinrich

Author, Maintainer

Julian Winkler

Author

Package Timeline

5 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2023-12-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.4.1
2020-04-23 · diff ↗
0.1.4
2020-04-17 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2020-04-09 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2020-04-07
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-07
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 15 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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